Reply To: problems w/ importing phpBB again
Cool…. Lets start fresh and see what happens….
Firstly make sure phpBB is running smoothly…
You state that phpBB has ‘1400 users and at least 50K posts’ though the phpBB forum itself states ‘Total posts 26878, Total topics 3468 & Total members 1263’ so there could be some issues with your actual phpBB install and/or database.
Run these checks which should clear up any potential database issues with phpBB from the phpBB admin tools (ACP) /phpbbv3/adm/index.php
- Resynchronise statistics
- Resynchronise post counts
- Resynchronise dotted topics
Now resync all of the phpBB forums which again should clear up any phpBB issues and in particular any issues for when bbPress starts to ‘calculating board hierarchy’
- Click the ‘Forums’ tab in phpBB ACP
- You should now see a list of category/parent forums
- For each one of these over to the right is an option to ‘resynchronize’ the forum
- Do this for each of the category/parent forums then drill down through each of those to any child forums and do the same for each
That should take care of any phpBB database issues…
Now go and try the import again with the same settings you have used previously but also check the following two options.
- Start Over – Start a fresh conversion from the beginning
- Purge Previous Import – Purge all information from a previously attempted import
If you believe the importer starts to hang at any point and is not moving along simply click ‘stop’ to pause the import process and give your webhost a bit of time to catch up on any other tasks that might be running and click ‘start’ to resume the import.
Don’t run any of the repair tools whilst the importer is importing and wait until the import has completed before running each of the tools individually.
So how did it go?
